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84. — Truncatella sp ? 



Hah. Warrior Island, Torres Straits. 



85. — Truncatella sp 1 



Hah. Barrow Island, North-East Coast of Australia, 



86. — Truncatella ■ — - sp 1 



Hah. Katow, New Guinea. 



MONDAY, APRIL 24th, 187(5. 



William Macleay, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



NEW MEMBER PROPOSED. 



Mr. William Macdonnell. 



The following papers were read : — 

 Description of a supposed new species of Fruit Pigeon, from 

 Malacola, one of the New Hebrides Islands, S. S. j proposed 

 to be called Ptllhiopus Gorriei — byE. Pierson Kamsay,E.L.S., 

 Curator of the Australian Museum, Sydney. 



Ptilinopus Corriei, sj). nov. 



Male. — The whole of head, chin, and throat, olive green,* 

 becoming bright green on the neck and occiput ; the whole 

 of the remainder of the upper and under surface bright deep 

 green ; the wing quills deep golden green, mesially, shaded 

 with black ; the inner webs of the primaries black towards the 

 middle and basal portion of the feather. The three inner second- 

 aries and their corresponding coverts of the larger series only 

 having an oblique oblong blotch of bright golden yellow at their 

 tip, which on the secondaries is confined to the outer web only 

 the smaller wing-coverts at the bend of the wing adjacent to the 



* These parts may have originally beeu bright green, like the rest of the 

 body. 



